{"id":598015,"date":"2026-09-12T10:32:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T10:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/598015\/"},"modified":"2026-09-12T10:32:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T10:32:10","slug":"brightons-art-trail-benches-bring-people-together","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/598015\/","title":{"rendered":"Brighton&#8217;s art trail benches &#8216;bring people together&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hannah Allbrooke, head of fundraising and marketing at Amaze, said: &#8220;We&#8217;ve just installed one of the sculptures [at Jubilee Library] on the story trail, there&#8217;s 74 book benches in total.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;After the sculptures are displayed, they go off to auction to raise money for us to help support families.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s really important to us that this was an accessible and fun experience. They can go out with families and enjoy a tactile, physical sculpture.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The art trail has been popular in previous years with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c974y09946xo\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Shaun the Sheep and snail sculptures dotted around the city<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sarah Harvey, trail director for Wild in Art, said: &#8220;We work with charities across the UK, we feel they bring people together.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;There&#8217;s so many people who bring this trail together, we have our artists but also businesses that sponsor the benches.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hannah Allbrooke, head of fundraising and marketing at Amaze, said: &#8220;We&#8217;ve just installed one of the sculptures [at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":598016,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[442,498,499,500,501,156,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-598015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-artsdesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=598015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598015\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/598016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=598015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=598015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=598015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}